Pioneers in the electronic imaging of insects and creators of the website Digital Dragonflies, the authors share their spectacular scans of live dragonflies, enhanced with photographs that showcase them in their natural environment. With tips on creating a dragonfly garden to instructions for catching, photographing, and scanning them.
Creatures of the sunlight that pirouette on sparkling wings in plain view of all who take the time to look, dragonflies are nonetheless among the most elusive of insects. Few people get a close look at these ever-vigilant aerial predators, and fewer still know what they are seeing. - from the Introduction"